An audience member hopped onto the stage at "Hand to God," a Broadway show, last Thursday. He didn't think it was karaoke night. He wasn't out to get his five minutes of fame. He was on the hunt for an outlet to charge his phone, and didn't seem to notice that the one he found was a nonfunctioning set detail.
Rajini Vaidyanathan of the BBC sees it as symptomatic of a widespread compulsion: Nomophobia, the fear of being disconnected from one's phone. And you're not connected if the battery runs out.
Desperate measures are understandable in the aftermath of a hurricane. But at the theatre? One has to wonder whether Mr. Nomophobia was more upset about being told off by the stage crew or about the lack of charge from the fake outlet.
